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...conclusion in deciding cases." Sotomayor concludes, "I would hope that a wise woman with the richness of her experience, would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion" - and then defines "better" as a "more compassionate, and caring conclusion." She also recommends a 1993 article in Judicature, a legal journal, that found that women judges reached different conclusions from men in employment-discrimination cases but not in obscenity or criminal cases. The claim that gender makes a difference in some categories of cases is widely accepted today, but academic theorizing about women's essential differences still remains hotly debated...
...Justice Department has a long history of securely detaining and successfully prosecuting terror suspects through the criminal-justice system, and we will bring that experience to bear in seeking justice in this case." - Attorney General Eric Holder. (Wall Street Journal, June...
...turbulent times, instrument valuations have very little correlation with indexes like the S&P 500. That's valuable for anyone looking to hedge against the rampant swings of the stock market. In a recent study in the international journal Pensions, R.A.J. Campbell suggests that pension funds consider adding top instruments to their portfolios to diversify their risk. "Violins are much less volatile than art," says Graddy, who co-authored a paper called "Fiddling with Value: Violins as an Investment?" While the Mei-Moses Fine Art Index was down 35% in the first quarter of 2009, prices for top instruments showed...
...despite the pervasiveness of pregnancy-related nausea, there is still no easy treatment, since most expecting mothers and their doctors aren't keen on exposing a still developing fetus to medications. Now, researchers from Israel and Canada report in the New England Journal of Medicine that a commonly prescribed heartburn drug, which also has anti-nausea properties, may be used in pregnant women without causing harm to babies. (See safety issues about taking pills during pregnancy...
Accidents like these happen more often than you think. According to a study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine - the first to tally acute computer-caused injuries like cuts and bruises - 9,300 Americans suffer such mishaps each year. Based on data from some 100 hospital emergency rooms across the country from 1994 to 2006, the study found that 78,703 people sustained injuries ranging from scrapes and bruises to contusions and torn muscles during the 13-year study period. (Watch a video about dropping your laptop from 3 ft. off the ground...